🍁 Trees in Europe are increasingly dying prematurely. A new WSL study on French #forests now shows that it is not only extremely dry summers but #climate anomalies in general that are driving tree mortality – particularly warm and wet springs: www.wsl.ch/en/news/why-... @lsce-ipsl.bsky.social 🌍

🌳How close are tropical forests to their photosynthetic limit? Our new paper highlights the vulnerability of these ecosystems to further warming and the importance of accurately representing canopy temperature. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

Pleased to share our latest paper on pollinator thermoregulation and microclimate use is now out! 🐝🦋🪰 Pollinators dynamically track desirable temperatures in both natural and artificial microclimates. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Out now in @natecoevo.nature.com: Increasing forest disturbance enhances habitat suitability for Europe’s large herbivores. Great work led by Julian Oeser and @tkuemmerle.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

📖 Published📖 Unravelling the spatial and temporal variability of natural disturbances in European forests 🌳 🌍 🪲 🔎 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652664...

Accelerated tree mortality after a half-century of stability in an old-growth forest: Insights from a 72-year study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Forests and wood use are important for climate change mitigation. However, there are different views on how to assess these contributions, leading to contradictory recommendations for forest policy and management. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌲Do Swiss trees change their niche as they grow? Studying 43 species across Switzerland, it was found that most don't! Juveniles & adults share similar climatic niches, with ontogenetic shifts being small and still seemingly unrelated to climate change 👉️ buff.ly/d2w8saq

Will climate change increase global forest deadwood carbon stocks (because of increasing tree productivity and mortality) or decrease it (because of increased deadwood decomposition)? Find out in the new paper by Edelmann et al., out now in @commsearth.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s432...

🌳 Across the Atlantic Forest, at a broad-scale, seed rain patterns in 52 fragments were evaluated. While seed density increased with fragmentation, rainfall and forest cover were the main drivers of seed rain diversity, highlighting habitat amount as key to forest regeneration 👉️ buff.ly/g2bgrRK

New paper out @currentbiology.bsky.social! Led by Clara Wild we show that restoring heterogeneity in forests increases bat and bird diversity. 🧪🍁 Interestingly mechanisms differ between taxa 🐦🦇 and diversity facets. @cofeuniwue.bsky.social @betafor.bsky.social

new article at @waldwissen.bsky.social : Tree-species mixtures reduce the risk of biotic damage and increase the resilience of forest stands. Preventive silvicultural management of stands plays a key role; @wslresearch.bsky.social; @swissforestlab.bsky.social www.waldwissen.net/en/forestry/...

New paper out today @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Toby Jackson and Lucy Beese shows the profound impact that liana cutting has on the structural recovery of logged tropical forests 📜 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Hurray - new paper out in Functional Ecology! @funecology.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social 
Wild large herbivores promote plant diversity and functional redundancy by reducing dominance: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/5

Europe's forests are under pressure - elevated mortality & lower growth. New work by Jessie Foest sheds new light on the response of forest reproduction - seed production is declining too. Obvious question is what this means for regeneration & the future of forests? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution from a temperate forest landscape in Germany shows that a single year of tree responses to intense insect herbivory can counteract a decade of environmentally driven shifts in spring phenology. go.nature.com/4uASGMU 🌍🧪

The first pantropical paper of the PANTROP project pantrop-eu.com is a fact! In a study led by Tomonari Matsuo published in Global Change Biology lnkd.in/eJy_Jrgb we show that (see below)

🌱Study reveals how competition drives dynamic shifts in plant traits, with species becoming more similar aboveground and diverging in root traits. Findings suggest that complementary trait shifts reduce competition & facilitate coexistence👉️ buff.ly/lZQoZvp

Paper published, led by Forest Isbell. We developed a new theoretical framework to predict how temporal stability and resilience emerge from the combined effects of resistance and recovery. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ökophysiologisch fundierte Waldbewirtschaftung ist kein Rezept, sondern ein Denkmuster: Wer versteht, warum Bäume bei Hitze und Dürre absterben, kann Massnahmen gezielt an Schwachstellen ausrichten @waldwissen.bsky.social : www.waldwissen.net/de/waldwirts...

🚨 New BE paper on #forest #microclimates!🌲 Across 11 years and 149 plots in Germany, variability was driven mainly by precipitation and outside temperatures -not by low- to medium-intensity timber harvest. #Climate extremes may pose the greatest #biodiversity risk.🌐 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌿A century of vegetation change in temperate mountain forests shows that shifts in plant diversity were driven mainly by the cessation of human management, not by recent climate changes🌲 #ForestEcology #GlobalChange 👉️ buff.ly/zB0SyRJ

Da Vinci’s mischief: xylem conduits in the stems of woody plants do not furcate Alemán-Sancheschúlz et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very interesting study challenging previous estimates of the magnitude of C storage difference between boreal primary forests and managed secondary forests in Europe.

Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon - Europe’s landscapes for 23 Myr were mostly tree- & flower-rich mosaics shaped by large herbivores, not dense #forests, see our new synthesis www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #forests #woodlands #paleoecology #nature #trees #refiorestation

🔊Probably already one of my top 10 papers this year: @leoniegass.bsky.social compiled for 28 tree species high resolution forest regeneration maps across Germany from inventory data! 14.3% of forests have low regeneration density, 30.4% has low species richness 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Suzanne Stas leads this new analysis of long-term impacts of selective logging on tropical forests. In Vietnam, intense logging shifted forest communities towards lighter-wood trees and depleted focal species, reducing both carbon storage and timber potential. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Together with @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social & @monicagturner.bsky.social, we synthesized studies on post-disturbance forest reorganization. Key insight: Self-replacement is common across biomes, i.e., disturbances act as catalysts of change only under specific conditions doi.org/10.1111/geb....

The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread. Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100. New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

In Central Europe, forest management shapes post-disturbance recovery mostly through what’s left behind (disturbance legacies 🪵🌱) than impacting forest growth rates 📈 + Set-aside forests regrow canopy height as fast as managed forests New paper out in ForEcolMngt 🌳 doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

Ecophysiology for climate-smart forest management #TansleyReview by Gessler et al. @wslresearch.bsky.social @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social @annekempel.bsky.social @josegruenzweig.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

Another PhD opportunity, joint project with colleagues from Prague on the future of beech in the Ore Mountains funded by the EU Interreg program. If you are interested in the effect of thinning and forest structure on high-resolution tree growth responses, see here: tu-dresden.de/stellenaussc....

We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in community ecology to work in the Arthropods Core Project of the Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social Reposting is much appreciated for widest reach! Thanks. More information here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

From the upcoming #AppsPlantSci #PlantDispersal issue 🌱 Animal-mediated seed dispersal: A review of study methods (by @noellebeckman.bsky.social, @jmbecologist.bsky.social, et al) bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #zoochory #PlantEcology #SeedDispersal

As climate and disturbance regimes change, forest reorganization is key to maintain the forest carbon sink. Great new work led by @christinadollinger.bsky.social w/ @monicagturner.bsky.social, @akkym.bsky.social and many others. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 It doesn't take much canopy disturbance in tropical forests to push surface temperatures above the thermal limits of many invertebrate groups. 🦋+🪲💩+🪱🧛‍♂️+ 🐜 Led by the wonderful Mike Boyle! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Increasing tree mortality over time in Australian forests www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Central Europe has seen unprecedented forest disturbances recently, but how are forests recovering? We surveyed disturbance hotspots in 10 countries 3-5 years after disturbance, finding ample tree regeneration and no signs of forest loss (median 4750 stems/ha), but... 1/2 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

New paper by @albavianasoto.bsky.social and @corneliussenf.bsky.social on forest reburns in southern Europe, published in Glob. Ecol. and Biogeography🌲🔥 Highlight: 30.1% of burned forest area experiencing multiple fire events since 1985. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

📖Published! Biodiversity enhances the positive effect of structural diversity on forest productivity and indirectly boosts productivity through structural diversity🌍 However, environmental stressors weaken the positive impact of structural diversity🐘 🔎 buff.ly/Uooe1rC

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution shows the long-term changes in tree species diversity across tropical forests in the Andes and Amazon. go.nature.com/45FPc1M 🌍 🧪

Can tropical rainforests 🌴🌎🇪🇨 regain their structural complexity in 40 years? Yes! Shown by @martinehbrecht.bsky.social et al. in their new article in @journalofecology.bsky.social www.reassembly.de/news/recover...

🌳🌴The various regions of the tropics differ in terms of the overall diversity of #tree species, but the relationship between environmental variables and local tree species richness is very similar across the different continents. #rainforest #biodiversity #forests

Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳 Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⚠️ New paper out in Nature Ecology & Evolution 🌱 #Grasslands #SoilCarbon @natecoevo.nature.com

Tree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes. Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.

Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource! 🧪🍁🌐 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fascinating new paper by @andrewabraham.bsky.social on how salt starvation shapes the abundance of large animals in Africa - the thread below explains the science … 🌐